The Fontaines de Pol Bury are officially known as Sphérades.
You'll find them in the Palais-Royal, in the Cour d'Orléans.
This courtyard delineates the Cour d'Honneur from the palace's gardens.
The architect Louis Victor designed the two Classical colonnades that encompass it.
The Fontaines de Pol Bury are quite unusual fountains.
They are another controversial work of contemporary art that appeared in the Palais Royal under the presidency of François Mitterand.
In 1985, the Ministry of Culture indeed commissioned the Belgian artist Pol Bury (1922-2005) with the creation of these two fountains
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